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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

can I start task manager minimized?

I would like to be able to log in and have xfce4-taskmanager minimized in the Notification Area. I searched this Forum, did a web search, consulted the (empty!) man page, and looked at the xfce4-taskmanager page in the Goodies doc. Zip to be found.

I am ignoring gdevilspie b/c I would like the trick to be available to all our users (eventually by default) without having to install and learn that package. Is there a way?

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MX-23 (based on Debian Stable) with our flagship Xfce 4.18.

ToZ

Administrator

From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,493

Re: can I start task manager minimized?

That's wierd, the app doesn't respond to wmctrl's toggle,hidden parameter.

Sorry but it has no option to start up hidden and if devilspie is out of the question, how about a startup script that starts it and uses an xdotool/wmctrl combo to minimize it right away?

#!/bin/bash

xfce4-taskmanager &
sleep 1
xdotool windowminimize $(wmctrl -l | grep "Task Manager" | awk '{print $1}')

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Jerry3904

Member

Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

Re: can I start task manager minimized?

That's a good thought, I'll take a look at that.

FWIW: the documentation on this is about the worst I have seen for any Xfce component, I'm sorry to say.

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MX-23 (based on Debian Stable) with our flagship Xfce 4.18.